This document discusses site-based public art and asks three questions: 1) How does site-based public art allow people to understand and experience a location? 2) What kinds of meaning or knowledge is produced through site-based public art and what is its status? 3) What types of writing or communication styles does creating and experiencing site-based public art require and produce?

1. • 1) How, and in what ways, does site-based,
public art allow the spectator/critic to practise
ecology and location?
• 2) What forms of meaning or knowledge
does site-based, public art produce, and what
is their status?
• 3) What types of writing or techniques of
enunication does the practice of site-based,
public art simultaneously require and produce?

3. Friends, citizens, fellow cyclists, we’re here this evening to
celebrate. To celebrate our ability to live alongside one
another. To celebrate the potential of outdoor space. In short to
celebrate Bowthorpe.
Forty years ago some bold decisions were made. Those
decisions brought Bowthorpe into being. Those decisions
added four and a half thousand new homes to the city of
Norwich. Those decisions put council houses next to private
houses next to housing association flats. Those decisions
meant that cyclists and pedestrians could go straight from A to
B, while motorists went the long way round. Those decisions
made Bowthorpe a habitable place.
• Now we want what Bowthorpe’s got. We want the whole of
the world to have what Norwich’s got. (Townley and Bradby,
2011).